Teens no longer allowed to work on poultry farms

The US Department of Labor wants to ban 14- and 15-year-olds from working
at poultry plants.

The proposed ban will ban these teenagers from working on poultry farms, as
well as riding as passengers on forklifts, or selling door-to-door. The proposed
update to child labour laws would also allow the teenagers to work in
advertising, banking and information technology.

"The proposal contains the most ambitious and far-reaching revisions to the
child labour regulations in the last 30 years," says Paul DeCamp, administrator
of the department's Wage and Hour Division.